Sentences with phrase «high concentrations of poor»

The additional $ 1 billion would be channeled into Title I, a $ 15 billion grant program for schools with high concentrations of poor children.

Not only are black and Hispanic children more likely to grow up in poor families, but middle - class black and Hispanic children are also much more likely than poor white children to live in neighborhoods and attend schools with high concentrations of poor students.

The law still funnels billions of federal dollars to schools with high concentrations of poor children.

Having high concentrations of poor children in the same schools makes no academic sense, says the Economic Policy Institute's Rothstein.

It is therefore counterproductive, if not tragic, that schools serving high concentrations of poor students are less likely to offer extracurricular activities.

Another key component of the legislation would require elementary schools to serve free breakfast in the classroom in schools with moderate or high concentrations of poor children.

In yet another critical review, a study by Michael Morgan of the University of Massachusetts, released last fall, shows that Channel One is most often found in schools with higher concentrations of poor students.

It's easy to think that if we just manage to get the dollars to the right building (the one with the highest concentration of poor students) our job is done.

Moreover, the results demonstrate that being trained in field placements with higher concentrations of poor, black, and lowest - achieving students has no significant effect on teacher retention or effectiveness.

One study of 83 school districts found that «the districts with the fewest applicants were those with the most challenging working conditions, higher concentrations of poor and minority students, and lower salaries for principals.»

The Education Law Center argues that it's an important factor because when wealthy families opt out of public education, schools are left with higher concentrations of poor children, and there is less political will to boost funds for public schools.

Not exact matches

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Finally a recent study discovered that high intake of sugar can lead to poor concentration in older children.

While they lost ground in seats with high concentrations of working - class voters, or those with no cars and poor health, they gained 2 percentage points or more in English and Welsh seats with the highest concentrations of middle - class professionals, car owners and those in good health.

Under the need - based formula recommended by the Medicaid Redesign Team in 2013, hospitals serving a higher concentration of Medicaid patients were meant to receive richer funding from the pool — as a way of directing more funds to institutions serving poorer populations.

In poorer districts, the high concentration of children living in poverty means students come to school with added baggage - hunger, housing instability, exposure to crime and violence - that can affect how well they do in the classroom.

Eating high - sugar or sugar - equivalent foods feeds the yeast, leading to the production of neurotoxins that cause fatigue, mental fog, mood swings, headaches, problems with memory retention, poor concentration, inability to focus, insomnia, anxiety, and depression.

Noting that high estrogen concentrations are «a defining characteristic of dominant follicles,» Dr. Denis Magoffin (Ceders - Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA) and co-investigators examined whether abnormal expression of ERs could contribute to poor follicular development and ovulatory failure in women with PCOS.

Some of the common symptoms include irritability, poor concentration, loss of energy, chronic headaches, and intolerance to high - protein foods.

Oh, apart from the excess body fat, flabby muscles, low libido and sexual performance, high cholesterol, lack of motivation, tiredness, poor stamina, irritability, poor concentration...

Manhattan, NY About Blog At Pure Earth / Blacksmith, our mission is to identify and clean up the poorest communities throughout the developing world where high concentrations of toxins have devastating health effects.

This comparison is likely to generate misleading conclusions for one simple reason, as the authors themselves point out on the first page of the executive summary and then again on page 57 of the full report: «the concentration of charter schools in urban areas skews the charter school enrollment towards having higher percentages of poor and minority students.»

Yet the Civil Rights Project (CRP) sees only a geographic concentration «that skews the charter school enrollment toward having higher percentages of poor and minority students.»

The relatively poor proficiency levels at public schools with high concentrations of ELL students is underscored by comparing the standardized test scores of white and black students who attend the schools in which ELL students are concentrated with the scores of white and black student who attend other public schools.

Don't forget that in many urban areas there are clusters of affluent families able to access high performing schools, while others» student bodies include concentrations of the poorest families, for example.

The number of children from poor families is rising across the district, and there are more schools with high concentrations of poverty than there were 10 years ago.

MarylandCAN chose to focus on Baltimore, a district that arguably faces the biggest hurdles in the state: high concentrations of low - income students and a history of poor academic performance.

The portability amendment would have slowed states to allocate Title I funds to districts based on the number of poor students who attend, but the White House criticized the idea saying that 25 percent of school districts with high concentrations of poverty, above 25 percent, would lose as much as $ 700 million in federal funds while low - poverty districts would gain as much as $ 470 million.

Those conversations, he explains, led to a tightly coordinated effort between the district, the United Way of Greenville County, and other community partners to tackle poor attendance, raise academic achievement, and boost graduation rates in the White Horse Road community, a section of the county with the highest concentrations of poverty.

In district - level analysis, the Education Trust finds that nationally districts serving high concentrations of low - income students receive on average $ 1,200 less in state and local funding than districts that serve low concentrations of low - income students, and that gap widens to $ 2,000 when comparing high - minority and low - minority districts.17 These findings are further reflected by national funding equity measures reported by Education Week, which indicate that wealthy school districts spend more per student than poorer school districts do on average.18

Manhattan, NY About Blog At Pure Earth / Blacksmith, our mission is to identify and clean up the poorest communities throughout the developing world where high concentrations of toxins have devastating health effects.

But there was little disagreement that playing what amounts to two games of high - stakes poker at the same time by driving up greenhouse - gas concentrations is a bad idea, particularly as ever more people concentrate on coastlines in both rich and poor countries.

While global concentrations are far below that, in local areas of high carbon pollution or poor air circulation (e.g. indoors, or on a highway), it's not hard to reach already.

If you argue that high costs to a nation of reducing its ghg emissions to its fair share of safe global ghg emissions justify non-action, how have you considered the increased harms and risks to poor vulnerable people and nations that will continue to grow as atmospheric ghg concentrations continue to rise?

During extreme heat events, nighttime temperatures in the region's big cities are generally several degrees higher28 than surrounding regions, leading to increased heat - related death among those less able to recover from the heat of the day.36 Since the hottest days in the Northeast are often associated with high concentrations of ground - level ozone and other pollutants, 37 the combination of heat stress and poor air quality can pose a major health risk to vulnerable groups: young children, the elderly, and those with pre-existing health conditions including asthma.29 Vulnerability is further increased as key infrastructure, including electricity for potentially life - saving air conditioning, is more likely to fail precisely when it is most needed — when demand exceeds available supply.

That's how, in a country with one of the highest concentrations of lawyers in the world, poor people often are forced to represent themselves in life - altering legal matters.

Manhattan, NY About Blog At Pure Earth / Blacksmith, our mission is to identify and clean up the poorest communities throughout the developing world where high concentrations of toxins have devastating health effects.

Manhattan, NY About Blog At Pure Earth / Blacksmith, our mission is to identify and clean up the poorest communities throughout the developing world where high concentrations of toxins have devastating health effects.

Poor concentration, high levels of activity, and impulsiveness are frequent characteristics of normal preschool children.